Worde, Wynken de & William Copland. A Lytell Geste of Robyn Hode And Hie Meiny. Edited by John Matthew Gutch. The Westgate Press, San Francisco, 1932.

Price: US$250.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: 12mo, [xii], 101pp., quarter brown Niger morocco, tan printed boards. Copy no. 156 of only 280 copies printed by Edwin & Robert Grabhorn, for The Westgate Press (its last publication). Introductory Note by Oscar Lewis: "Lytell Geste . " is not only the earliest of all existing legends of this first great hero of the English serfs; it is also one of the finest ballads in the language. In beauty and dramatic power, it has been pronounced worthy of Chaucer himself". Hand-colored cuts by Valenti Angelo.

Seller: Thomas J. Joyce And Company, Chicago, IL, U.S.A.

[Gutch, John Mathew]. A lytell geste of Robyn Hode and his meiny. Reprinted from the edition by John Mathew Gutch following the Wynken de Worde and William Copland texts, by Edwin and Robert Grabhorn for The Westgate Press. [Grabhorn Press], San Francisco, 1932.

Price: US$281.25 + shipping

Description: Edition limited to 280 copies (twenty-five of which were specially made for Herbert Lionel Rothchild (this, no. 203); small 8vo, pp. [8], 101, [1]; color pictorial woodcut title page and 17 color woodcut illustrations by Valenti Angelo; original calf-backed boards, spine lettered in blind; top of spine just chipped, boards worn at corners, extremities lightly rubbed; else very good in a buckram clamshell box. Grabhorn Bibliography, 157.

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.